For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated ...

An international team of scientists has found what may be the first geochemical evidence from ocean sediments in the depths ...

For decades, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of ...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the genetic history of horses in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 26,000 years, revealing a past that includes extinct lineages, ancestral ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

If you look closely, throughout history men have dressed almost the same as women in terms of variety of garments, color, and sophistication. It’s only recently that the two sexes have differed ...

Monastery of St. Catherine, Egypt. Credit: Marc Rycaert / Wikimedia Commons Among hundreds of forgotten manuscripts appeared an Arabic version of the Gospels containing a revealing peculiarity: in its ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have uncovered an intact handprint in an ancient Egyptian tomb, a tangible remnant of the artisan who worked the clay four millennia ago. The print, ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

Beneath the grounds where a new school is set to be built in Bielefeld, Germany, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the foundations of a large settlement that flourished between the 2nd and 5th ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...